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Steven M. Vose

@thejainguy.bsky.social

Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Chair of Jain Studies, Dept of History, CU Denver. Book: Reimagining #Jainism in Islamic #India (forth., Routledge). Religion, Politics, Boston sports. He/Him. Anti-fascist.

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An American Dingo bites a football with American flag patterning while standing in a field.

An American Dingo bites a football with American flag patterning while standing in a field.

Luna: first team All-American (special teams)
@themodsisyphus.bsky.social

14.11.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cosplaying losers need to get got.

09.11.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

09.11.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6370    πŸ” 2699    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 107

May he never set foot in it.

21.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He thinks he’s going to be there forever. May he never set foot in it.

20.10.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chip Roy doesn’t fear hell or he’d avoid lying. He’s wrapping his white supremacist fantasies of genociding his way to finally being the smartest guy left in the Christian flag. He is trash.

20.10.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

19.10.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2180    πŸ” 436    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

Cops need to go to jail for doing this shit.

19.10.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That means two things! ❀️

19.10.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the sickest burn in the history of sick burns.

18.10.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Crowd of protestors holding signs in Denver near the state capitol.

Crowd of protestors holding signs in Denver near the state capitol.

Protest sign: Pocket rescissions are illegal, restore clean energy funding now!

Protest sign: Pocket rescissions are illegal, restore clean energy funding now!

Protestors in Denver, featuring a sign that reads: This sign kills fascists

Protestors in Denver, featuring a sign that reads: This sign kills fascists

Protestor carries a sign with an ICE agent and a KKK costume, which reads, β€œReal men show their face”

Protestor carries a sign with an ICE agent and a KKK costume, which reads, β€œReal men show their face”

This is what democracy looks like (in Denver).

18.10.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesβ€”assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceβ€”they can be prosecuted.

26.08.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 23770    πŸ” 7166    πŸ’¬ 907    πŸ“Œ 867

FΓΌhrer pin.

11.04.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe they called it β€œextrajudicial rendition” a while back.

09.04.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm a Black woman. I know democracy isn't meant for me but I've fought for it because of my ancestors who've come before me. @antheabutler.bsky.social at CU Denver event. @thejainguy.bsky.social

29.03.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Flyer for talk at CU Denver. Doors open at 6:00 PM, event 6:30-7:45PM. Student Commons Building, Room 1600.

Flyer for talk at CU Denver. Doors open at 6:00 PM, event 6:30-7:45PM. Student Commons Building, Room 1600.

TODAY! Dr Anthea Butler and Dr Randall Balmer will discuss β€œWhite Christian Nationalism and the Future of US Politics.” Doors at 6:00 PM; event starts at 6:30. SCB 1600.
Free and open to the public! @cudenverclas.bsky.social
@antheabutler.bsky.social
#whitechristiannationalism

28.03.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next on β€œShameful Displays of Fascism by Billionaire Trustees of Ivy League Universities” that would be easily thwarted with real shared governance. Anyone who thinks that university admins & trustees and Trump aren’t on the same side is a fool.

22.03.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you said you wanted a waterbed, we didn’t know this is what you had in mind.

13.03.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NYT helping Trump with his burning mission to erase or replace everything Obama-related. From Audacity of Hope to Audacity of Genocide.

05.02.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn’t this the guy who was just bragging about how Biden deported twice as many people every week as Trump did?

05.02.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Talking about the Cairo Geniza today in my Indian Ocean class. I like to think of it as the productive value of never getting around to doing that chore you were supposed to do.

04.02.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s ok, the Republicans took over 900 pages to say just 14 words.

28.01.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

Meta tried to hide that it trained its AI on pirated books.

One staff member wrote:

β€œIf there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues”

Fantastic @knibbs.bsky.social story

10.01.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 383    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 11

That these are all candidates to become Secretary of Defense?

04.01.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PRAYER OF
THOMAS JEFFERSON
ALMIGHTY GOD, Who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable industry and prosperity.
SAVE Us from violence, discord and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and every evil way. Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues.
ENDOW with the Spirit of wisdom those to whom in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth.
IN THE TIME of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all of which we ask through JESUS CHRIST. OUR LORD.
- Amen.

PRAYER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON ALMIGHTY GOD, Who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable industry and prosperity. SAVE Us from violence, discord and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and every evil way. Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. ENDOW with the Spirit of wisdom those to whom in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. IN THE TIME of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all of which we ask through JESUS CHRIST. OUR LORD. - Amen.

FWIW, here's a 1970 version of that apocryphal Thomas Jefferson prayer that Mike Johnson read in the House of Representatives today. It appeared in The Cross and the Flag, the magazine of Gerald LK Smith, a white supremacist & Christian Nationalist who was America's most notorious antisemite.

04.01.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1918    πŸ” 822    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 151

Of course, clearly referring to the 2026 playoffs. Maybe UGA will play OSU then.

03.01.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You counting on UGA ever catching a whiff of OSU.

03.01.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This aged well.

03.01.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We all know who pays them.

03.01.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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